1993 Bishopsgate bombing

The 1993 Bishopsgate bombing occurred at 10:27 AM on 24 April 1993 when the Provisional IRA detonated a truck bomb outside of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank on the Bishopsgate thoroughfare of London, England. The attack came just a year after the Baltic Exchange bombing in the same city, and it targeted the economy of the United Kingdom. A journalist was killed and 44 people were injured in the bombing.